Friday, November 24, 2006

Protect your eyes during the hols

…The American Academy of Ophthalmology says eye-ruining dangers lurk everywhere at the holidays.

…Some comedian used to have a line about the favorite cry of parents: “You will put your eye out!” He said, “We never got this. We knew kids who got broken arms, but never anyone whose eye got put out.”

…Yet, of the 210,000 toy-related injuries in 2005 (these toys must be stopped!), 6,000 were eye injuries to kids under 15.

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